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1.
On a train sitting backwards You were going home Never saw your face Until the evening news Never turned around to see who was laughing Laughing in the mountains outside laughing in the window laughing in the sea Oh oh how happy you seemed right behind me You and me back to back on the train and the rain comes And the sky turns black I know you’re never coming back never coming back Never coming back On a train sitting backwards La la la la la I never saw your face You were going home going home What a strange disaster I know you’re never coming back never coming back It was a one way ticket and the sky turns black I know you’re never coming back never coming back Laughing in the mountains outside laughing in the window laughing in the sea Oh oh how happy you seemed, right behind me You were going home
2.
Get out there little darling wipe the sleep from your face Get out there in the air and join the human race Race til your little feets are finally free And you can always come home to me Send out a ship a message on the tiny sea No matter where you throw it will find me Send me your dreams and whispers Send me your open eyes and what they see And darlin you can always come home to me Darlin you can always come home to me The wind blows thru your book What a turn it took When it turns you shine When you shine it’s dandelions on fire Send out a ship a message on the tiny sea No matter where you throw it will find me Send me your dreams your whispers Send me your open eyes and what they see And darlin you can always come home to me You can always come home to me The wind blows thru your book What a turn it took When it turns you shine When you shine it’s dandelions on fire
3.
Love Me Mine 03:25
In one more year my darling You will be undone You’ll shoot your foot with a gilded gun and black night will swallow you alive You dive from the zenith of the highest hill You’ll swim or you will drown If you swim your legs grow stronger if you drown I will follow you down One year ago you were a dancer You would dance in and out of time You’d lay in the hands of a grandfather clock and you’d pirouette when he would chime You will be ok for a while You’ll have yourself some fun But time will have its way with you and I hope that you love me mine If you swallow that black water In the name of man Hold yourself up to the sky Or the vines will pull like hands If you sink into the brine you’re lost Hold on to me
4.
After the time I followed your feet into the backwards curve in your street I saw your hands makin plan I knew you’d soon be a getaway man I didn’t even want you to stay I knew you’d fly and come back someday Bringing me presents and hearing me play I knew you’d fly and come back some day You are growing fast After the signs you painted in town Smoking and painting just like a clown You can feel what you don’t see You can feel a danger and you can feel me I didn’t even want you to stay I knew you’d fly and come back someday Bringing me presents and hearing me play I knew you’d fly and come back some day You are growing fast After the time I followed your feet into the backwards curve your street I saw your hands makin' plan I knew you’d soon be a getaway man
5.
Fragments tell a story Life in change mountain range Let’s stop here for a day check out the cracks in the rock Ignore the buzzing clock the telephones guitars in hock the price of gasoline I mean it baby Let’s stop here for a day The light comes in the wind sends dirt spinning curtains pinned back yeah Look at the tracks a dog walked here not long ago And old man passed here in the sun He played the five dollar lottery and it’s clear that he won The day plays slowly in the dusty town The cities up and the road is down Down the road will have to wait Wait until we come again I mean it baby Let’s stop here for a day The windows down blowing hard on my face Driving through the strangest place Windows downs killing time until the next rhyme Next new friend til the end of this one another long long song sung yeah
6.
This is a story of something untrue Devils for horses and broken black shoes Can you find me can you find me Can you follow the clues I’m here in the nowhere I’m here in the blue Broken down cars wanting for wheels I know just how they might feel Can you find me can you find me Can you follow the clues I’m here in the nowhere I’m here in the blue Money won’t stick friends fall away But I’m happy to dance today Last night you said teach me I asked you to stay We stood in the window and swayed You say you don’t love me You say I’m a ghost I only ask this of you Can you find me can you find me Can you follow the clues I’m here in the nowhere I’m here in the blue
7.
Breakdown again Take another sleeping pin Baby you, you so creepy. Baby you so creepy Fat from eating poison milk instructing a sudden palid arc That ain’t heavy This ain’t heavy This ain’t heavy This internal metronome makes me sick from clicking Ha ha
8.
My Hometown 03:24
There’s safety in numbers babe and you are #1 There’s safety in numbers babe and you are #1 In smiles in frowns In hand me downs Wherever you go that’s my hometown Open up your pretty hands and look inside You’ll see me laughing and having fun somewhere 1 2 3 4 friends all around I’m still looking at you Baby baby baby I never lose sight of you Open up your pretty hands and look inside You’ll see me laughing and having fun somewhere 1 2 3 4 friends all around I’m still looking at you Baby baby baby I never lose sight of you There’s safety in numbers babe and once it was 2 There’s safety in numbers baby once it was 2 You and me will always be Chasing that beautiful sound But no matter where in the world we go Whether or not you’re around Wherever you go that’s my hometown Wherever you go that’s my hometown
9.
I Saw Him 06:26
I saw him waiting on poison pin waiting on my hands and knees waiting till the curtains freeze to the glass to the black sky Down again falling out falling down falling up backwards to the frozen sky I saw him I saw him I saw him taking hits from whenst you came settling for sugar rain Coming from the mercy sky coming down on you and I I saw him I saw him coming down on you and I coming in like fog and sting stabbing out the raining kings trading horse for golden rings trading out and trading back trading out and trading back broken skin ready to win redder to win the rainy nite white man I saw him white man get a little if you can execute your master plan I saw him

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“Dandelions On Fire”, an unexpected and surprising collaboration born from the remarkable talents of the awesome guitar player Simone Massaron (a great musician at ease with different genres), who wrote the music to the songs and arranged almost everything, and Carla Bozulich, renowned cult artist , who is an amazing lyricist and singer.
Blues, ballads, folk music, improvised moments…all to create a compelling collection of songs and haunting melodies.
The band supporting Simone and Carla is a special one too: Zeno De Rossi on drums is one of the most gifted players emerging out of the new jazz and improvised music scene in Italy. Andrea Viti and Xabier Iriondo have a glorious past as their background with the famous and acclaimed band Afterhours and now move between classic rock and experimental music independently.
Other great musicians also took part to the recording session.


"Dandelions Dn Fire is an Italian project driven by composer and guitarist Simone Massaron, whose connection with Bozulich is presumably via LA guitarist Nels Cline. Opener “Never Saw Your Face” is a lowering two-chord drama with bowed bass and harmonium, and we are broadly in Tom Waits territory. Massaron, whose speciality is fretless guitar, also brings banjo and lap steel, and young Italian drummer Zeno de Rossi is moodily appropriate on brushes and junkyard percussion. Bozulich moves in restrained mode between tender and creepy; her lyrics and vocal performances are great, and because this is not her group she’s careful not to break out and start testifying. Tracks like “Five Dollar Lottery” are hypnotic, grinding riffs full of colour and menace, while for the title track it’s back to the sour sweet of Country: “When you shine, this dandelion’s on fire.”

Clive Bell - THE WIRE

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released September 24, 2008

Simone Massaron: guitars, banjo, pump organ
Carla Bozulich: voice
Xabier Iriondo: guitar, mahai metak
Zeno De Rossi: drums
Andrea Viti: bass
Davide Tedesco: double bass
Francesco Guerri: cello
Riccardo Di Paola: pump organ. piano

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Simone Massaron Milano, Italy

“Simone Massaron is an inventive improviser and highly skilled guitarist, is a unique voice among a new generation of musicians literate in both the improvising traditions of Derek Bailey/Fred Frith and rock/free jazz, working towards a new language of the guitar”.
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